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[ band playing music ] [ background chatter ] >> [laughs] i've beendoing this now for 12 years and i never can get overwhen i walk on stage and everyone gets real quiet.
al roker weight loss, i like it. i appreciate that. [laughter] well welcomeeveryone. good afternoon.
i'm matt winston and i'massistant to the president here at the university of georgiaand i am pleased to welcome each and every one of you tothis year's special event, the 2013 holmes-hunter lecture. i'm especially pleasedthat we were able to get our eventrescheduled this year because i think everyoneknows that, like last, what happened earlier thissemester we had a little bit of weather incident and theweather prevented our speaker
from coming to travel with us,but i'm glad that we were able to get by that and get throughthat and to welcome mr. roker. and i want to tell you that theweather you see outside is what happens here everyday of the year, 365. [laughter] what? what? yeah, yeah that's how weroll in this neck of the woods. [laughter] mr. rokervowed to come back and he used his weatheraltering skills to set the weather straightfor us and we're grateful
that you could be here today. many of you also know thatlast year if you came, there was another unfortunateincident and my script for this thing fell behind thecrevices of this very podium which i still think is whereit is, but i've got a failsafe. first and foremost,i'm using technology. i got my trusty ipad here andi'm going to give it a shot to use my trusty ipad, but myother failsafe is underneath all of your seats i've tapedrandom pieces of my script.
[laughter] and if i losesomething, i'm going to scream out a page number andwhoever has it i just want you to come running up. i'd appreciate the help. thank you all for being here. we're glad that you couldjoin us at this occasion. this is an occasion where eachyear we celebrate the legacy of dr. hamilton holmesand charlayne hunter, the first two black studentsto enroll at the university
of georgia, the flagshipinstitution in the state of georgia. we started this prestigiouslecture in 1985 and it was part of the university's 200thanniversary commemoration. this lecture always providesus with an opportunity to explore issues ofrace and race relations and social justiceand civil rights. but always the core value of this particular lectureis always about education.
other previous lecturershave included the likes of distinguished people likeandrew young, john lewis, nikki giovanni, harold ford,jr., vernon jordan, ron clark, sheryl hu- excuse me,charlayne hunter-gault, and another special alumdeborah roberts who some of us on this stage know pretty well. today we embrace ourdesegregation history and we revel in ourforward journey. in recent months and yearswe have celebrated the life
of donald hollowell, thehead of the legal team that represented holmes andhunter, and members of his team who included vernon jordanand judge horace ward. we've rejoiced at our progressin 2001 and again in 2011 when we celebrated the40th and 50th anniversaries of desegregation respectively. we've increased our diversityprofile across the ranks of faculty and staffand students and alums. we've named buildings andprofessorships and lectureships
and scholarships to honor manyof our pioneers in diversity. we have created partnershipswith many hbcus, the ron clark academy, the guisetta foundation[assumed spelling], the greensboro dreamers and100 black men of atlanta. and at the start of thisacademic year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of mary francesearly's earning her graduate degree and we willend this academic term by awarding her the university'shighest recognition,
the honorary degree. uga has taken substantialstrides since 1961 and we have especially enjoyedvictories under the leadership of our current presidentdr. michael f. adams. from his first week onthe job some 16 years ago, he has supported uga's diversityefforts both symbolically and in very tangible ways. for it was in hisfirst week on the job that he made thecourageous decision
to fight the admissions lawsuitdefending our ability to protect and to pursue a diversestudent body. we have made incrediblestrides under his leadership and we are grateful forthat and i would ask you all to please join me in welcomingto the stage the 21st president of the university ofgeorgia, dr. michael f. adams. [ applause ] >> thank you matt, and i wantto add my welcome to each one of you and i also want toexpress appreciation to matt
for his cooperation andleadership in my office over these many years thatwe have worked together. acquiring speakers isa very difficult task. those of you who headorganizations should try it sometimes. about the only thing that thepresident of the university of georgia can do by himself isselect the commencement speaker. and i don't think ihave ever selected one where i didn't get some letterwith somebody saying that was
about the dumbestdecision [laughter] that i could ever imagine. well, i've not received,nor has matt, any people question decidingto invite al roker to come and to be with us this year. he's done the second bestthing as i sometimes laugh about my younger son taylorwho wandered off to emory-- we cleaned him up byhim marrying a uga girl. the same has happened to alroker, and deborah roberts
and so we're honored to beable to close that gap today and certainly to havemr. roker with us. we've all kidded him aboutbeing so poor in his inability to protect the weather on a daywhen he was originally scheduled to come here, but i mustsay, once he got it right, he really did get it rightand it's a beautiful day, hardly to be surpassedtoday in athens, georgia. what should not be lost in all of this however is theinstitution's continuing
commitment to opennessand to access. and that's what we've reallycome to celebrate today. earlier this week, you do geta lot of interesting visitors in the offices, thepresident elect knows. one of my visitors earlier thisweek was former governor barnes. governor barnes waspresident, was governor when we together werefighting the federal lawsuit and he was also the personwho ultimately agreed with me and we helped proceed theregents that it was time
to name a building inhonor of hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter-gault. and roy said to me when he washere this week that he recalls that as one of the best days that he enjoyed whilebeing governor of the state of georgia. so the legacy that is carried on by this lectureship eachyear is vitally important to both the history,the present,
and the future ofthis institution. and for those of you who havetaken time on a beautiful day when you could be outside orstudying for exams which are around the corner or whatevermight have been an appropriate diversion, for youto take time to come and to share this timewith us is special. so i want to say a special thankyou and welcome to all of you. and on behalf of theuniversity, not only a welcome but deep gratitude for usfor your taking the time
against a horriblybusy schedule. i asked him when doeshe ever sleep [laughter] when he came by theoffice today. every time i turn on thetv, he's usually live. i know some times may be tapedbut he works hard in addition to being a great andperceptive person. so again, mr. roker, we'rehonored to have you with us and matt, thanks againfor all you've done. thank you.
>> thank you mr. president. before our speaker comes to thestage, i want to take a moment to recognize several veryspecial members today. it is always a greathonor when members of the late hamilton holmesfamily are able to join us and today with us ishamilton's daughter alison. alison would you stand sowe could recognize you? and we're blessed always to havehamilton's wife mrs. marilyn holmes with us today and we havea special gift for her and we'd
like for you to all join mein saying hello to marilyn. [ pause ] we have, on the back of yourprogram you will note the names of several people who havedelivered this distinguished lecture before. i don't know if any ofthem are here today, but if you are a formerholmes-hunter lecturer, would you please stand. i hope someone's here.
nope. well i'll pretendi'm one, i'll stand. [laughter] i do want to acknowledge oneparticular former member and a former speaker andthat is deborah roberts. and although she isunable to join us today, i want to thank her personallyand on the record here. she was very instrumental in helping us get ourspeaker here today and to [laughter]i don't know how.
today marks a milestone becausewe will have the first spousal team to actually everdeliver this lecture so it's very historic. she is a grady grad and iwant you to let her know that her alma mater sendsher a great deal of thanks. i also want to takeone more opportunity to recognize one other person, our current provostjere morehead who was recently confirmed bythe regents to succeed dr. adams
as the 22nd president ofthe university of georgia. professor morehead has alsobeen incredibly supportive of the institution's diversityefforts during his many years here and we look forwardto your leadership of georgia's flagshipinstitution. and i hope everyone will joinme in congratulating him. it's always good to say nicethings about the boss, isn't it? [laughter] we have a customat this lecture every year of inviting one ofour amazing students
to formally introducethe keynote speaker. today that amazing student isfayetteville native ms. jenna lee jackson. jenna is a secondyear law student at the university of georgia. she earned her undergraduatedegree in communications and a minor in spanishgraduating magna cum laude from mercer university. although you may not recognizeher without her tiara,
you may be aware that jennais the reigning ms. university of georgia. and in her short tenure she hasrepresented the university well in her academic andextracurricular endeavors. she is a member of the blacklaw student association and odk leadership society. she has had internships atmorris, manning, & martin, uga's athletic association,and kaiser-permanente. at mercer she was an associatejustice for the honor council,
a track star, and a member of the student advisoryathletic advisory council. she has also been very active with community serviceorganizations including project safe and the salvation army. i hope you will please joinme in giving a rousing round of applause for one ofuga's amazing students, ms. jenna lee jackson. >> thank you.
to honor mrs. gault andthe late hamilton holmes, the first african americanstudents to enroll at uga, it is my distinctpleasure to introduce you to our guest lecturer today. you all may know him as12 time emmy winning host and weather man of the todayshow where he is watched by 32 million viewers per week, but here are five things youdidn't know about al roker. he's the first cousinto lenny kravitz.
he originally wantedto be a cartoonist. he is a bestselling authorwhich includes a series of murder mysteries thatfeature billy blessing, a celebrity chef turnedamateur detective. he is ceo of al rokerentertainment, a thriving multimedia companyinvolved in the development and production of network,cable, and home video. and lastly, and you could arguemost importantly, he is married to deborah roberts, an abcreporter and georgia bulldog.
as you can see, mr. rokeris a fascinating person and we're all infor a treat today. without further adieux, pleasejoin me in welcoming al roker. >> well good afternoon. i, you know i look at the listof the people who have spoken at this lecture series and i keep thinking,there's nobody else? really? i mean [laughter] andthen when there was a snow storm and you actually had a chance toget somebody else, you came back
to me, so i, i appreciate it. i don't quite understandit but i appreciate it. i, as has been alluded to, iam married to deborah roberts, a 20/20 correspondent and momof our two children, and i'm, see i went to thestate university of new york at oswego. [laughter] it's adifferent state university. [laughter] small. we don't have a footballteam, we have a hockey team.
very good hockeyteam but it's hockey. [laughter] so i don't, andi don't quite appreciate, until i married my wife ireally didn't spend any time in the south. i'm from new yorkcity, born and raised. so i didn't quite get the fact that college footballmight be a little big here. [laughter] she's fromperry, georgia and so-- i don't know what that[sound effect] [laughter].
what the hell was that? [laughter] perry georgia, [sound effect] anyway,go perry panthers. so we had come down to visit herfamily in perry and by the way, is the state food fried? i just-- [laughter] anyway, ihad forgotten a baseball cap and we were at the walmart. my kids come down to perry fortwo things, to go to walmart and to be able to eatat captain d's seafood.
[laughter] because wedon't have anything like that in new york city. anyway, so i'm lookingand there's a selection of baseball caps and so isee this one, there's this like kind of cute angry bee. [laughter] so i go well [soundeffect] you know again i-- because you don't always seethat, kind of like a happy yet angry insecton a baseball cap. so i thought this is great soi bring the, i put the hat on,
i walk into the house and allof the sudden everybody turns and looks at me like i had justkidnapped the lindberg baby. [laughter] and deborahsays what are you wearing? and i'm thinking, i thinkit's fairly obvious. you're a college grad. it's a baseball cap. [laughter] and she says, why areyou wearing that baseball cap? i said because it fitsand it's kind of cute. it's got an angry bee.
[laughter] and she saysthat's a georgia tech hornet! i said it doesn't say that,it just has angry bee. [laughter] she goes, you bringthat into a bulldog house! i said well i didn't know that bulldogs didn't getalong with angry hornets. so i now know don't bring anangry bee, only have a jolly dog that you know is a very,kind of, you know it's kind of like the dog, i likethe dog because he's kind of like the dog fromtom and jerry, you know?
[laughter] like spike. hi, how you doing? and he's got, and where doeshe get the cap and the-- see that's the thingwith cartoon characters. i can buy the factthat they talk. where did they getthe clothes, okay? [laughter] where did the dogget the hat and the-- anyway. i, but i really am honored tobe here because this is one of those things that i, igraduated from college in 1976
and never consideredwhat we would be looking at as we move forward into 2013, that in fact last nighti was just at a reception for sherrilyn ifill,the new head of the naacp legal defense fund. and the fact that there is stillso much work to be done is, in a sense, somewhatmind-blowing. my 14 year old is aboutto embark on a trip to washington d.c.,and 8th grade trip.
and one of the placesthey're going to go is to the martin lutherking memorial. we just watched, and i thinkit was very important for them, my daughter and myson to watch 42, the story of jackie robinson,because it wasn't that long ago that this was an issue,and still is an issue for many people ofcolor in this country. i grew up in the late 60's,came of age in the late 60's. i was a high schoolstudent in 1968.
i was very fortunate. again, i went to a catholicschool and st. catherine of siena or as we liked, wealways called it because our, we had very hyperactivenuns who taught us. we called it our lady ofperpetual motion, you know, because [laughter] theywere always moving. and i actually got a job,i got a scholarship to go to a jesuit military school inmanhattan, xavier high school. i always thought it was great.
you know it was like amilitary catholic school. like we were going to beready for the next crusade. [laughter] and you know it was asmall school, about 800 students and there were onlya small number of african american students. but it was important, it wasone of those things that set me on my path because the jesuitswere very free thinkers, very forward thinking. they had a communicationsdepartment if you will,
and that kind of got meinterested in communications. i had, i wanted tobe a cartoonist as jenna had mentioned, buti was intrigued by the idea of radio and television. i didn't want tobe on television, i wanted to work in television. and i graduated fromschool, i got a, i went to, i applied to thestate university they met my stringentrequirements-- they accepted me.
[laughter] and i went sightunseen to this college which is on one of the five great lakes. it's on lake ontario. and i grew up, again,in new york city and had never reallyseen a lake per se, only seen pictures of lakes. i'd seen ponds. but never really-- i'dseen and ocean, and ponds. and then i got to this lake thatyou can't see the other side of
and i thought did wesomehow miss this and get to the atlantic ocean? [laughter] but it was a,it was one of these things where i decided earlyon that i really wanted to be in television. and my department chairmanwas a man by the name of lou o'donnell[assumed spelling], and i did my firsttelevision performance class and he said mr. roker, you havethe perfect face for radio.
[laughter] glad iwasn't planning on going into television. and it was a great schooland a diverse student body of african americanstudents, hispanic students, kids from upstate, downstate. i went to school andhad a couple of classes with a young man who reallydidn't make much of himself in the communications business. he only stayed for two yearsand then went back to the city
and i don't really knowwhat happened to him. i shared a coupleof classes with him, a guy by the nameof jerry seinfeld. [laughter] i keep thinking if he had stayed he might'vemade something of himself. [laughter] but you know it wasone of these things, i, my, the same departmentchairman who told me that i had the perfect facefor radio actually worked at the local televisionstation in syracuse,
new york about 40 miles away. and he put me up for a jobin 1974-- i was a sophomore-- to do weekend weather. now i had taken a coupleof classes in meteorology for a science requirement. and the reason i took thisone meteorology course, my suitemate, one of my suitemates wasa meteorology major and he said you should takethis class with this one teacher
because he usually gets drunkon sunday and doesn't show up for class on monday. [laughter] sign me up. [laughter] but ireally had no interest in using this meteorologicalknowledge until this job came up. and i got the job. my department chairman,i did a tape at school, he took it down for me.
and this was 1974,upstate new york. and there were noafrican americans on television at that time. and our news director, theguy who finally hired me because i kept calling him andcalling him and calling him, he says you know what, i canonly afford a college student or a drunk guy, and you're theonly college student i know so you're going to get the job. but the station manager wasso nervous that we were going,
in 1974 in upstate newyork, they were going to put an african american on tvthat he hired, he hired a guard for the switchboardand the lobby. and i went on the airon a saturday night. it was december 6th, 1974--i'm sorry, may 6th, 1974, and the switchboarddidn't get any calls. [laughter] now part of the problem might've beennobody was watching the station but it was, and i have foundthis time and time again
as i have progressed ifyou will in the business, that management is usually farbehind what their audience wants and desires and will tolerate,and will in fact embrace. i worked there for,through my sophomore year, the end of my sophomoreyear, my junior year, and even my senior year. and then i graduated andi got a job in washington, d.c. and i met probably oneof the most influential-- other than my parents-- oneof the most influential people
in my life, who was a manwho was raised in the south, deep south in virginia,and yet looked at people for what they coulddo and who they were, not the color of their skin. it was mr. willard scott. willard scott is likea second dad to me. and since my father has passed,he's really become my dad. and i, i'll never forget, i wasworking at wttg in washington, d.c., the channel,the fox station--
then it was metro media. i was very naivewhen i took the job. when i was interviewedfor the job, the news director said we can'tpay you a lot but you're going to be on the number onestation at 10 o'clock. it wasn't until i got there andhad been working for two weeks that i r- it was the onlystation on at 10 o'clock. [laughter] but willard called meone afternoon and said hey come on son let's go to lunch.
having dinner withwillard scott was like having dinnerwith foghorn leghorn. [laughter] he was like heyson, come on in here, ah! and it, if you remember, willard in the beginningwould wear a toupe, but he only wore it on the air. as soon as he got off theair he put it in a drawer, he left it in his car,and he'd come to dinner. and having dinner withwillard was like having dinner
with an entire restaurantbecause people came up, m en came up and shoot his hand. by the end of the evening, willard's head wascovered with lipstick. i mean women would always comeup and they'd kiss his head. he goes, is this agreat country or what? [laughter] but he gaveme two of the best bits of advice i've ever gotten, andi still use them to this day. he said always beyourself because at the end
of the day that'sall you'll ever have. you know no matter who you are, you have to staytrue to who you are. it was one of the coupleof times i saw him serious. and he said and theother thing is never give up your day job, you know? he said, he goes no matterwhat you do, he goes hold on to that today show gigas long as you can. [laughter] and what wasinteresting about being
with willard in the late 1970's in washington d.c. it wasa time of real tumult. i don't know if you recall in 1976 there was ahanafi muslim takeover of city buildings inwashington, d.c. the city came to a standstill and i had been at the station foronly two weeks. and i was a weather man. i did not, i, one of the otherreasons why i'm always kind
of surprised when i look at thelist of people who've spoken at this, these arereal journalists. like i'm a weatherman, and they had run out of people to cover stories. so the news director cameout, looked around the room and i saw him look,i saw him go roker-- [laughter] you, i'm going tosend you to washington general. that's where they're takingmarion barry the mayor, he's been shot.
and i keep thinking there's gotto be another roker in here. [laughter] oh he'spointing at me. and it was, it was trulya baptism under fire. i learned that night that a,we didn't have a live truck so we had to shuttle film--this is, that's how old i am, we had film back then-- backand forth to the station. and i watched as therest of the country did, a real star take place, maxrobinson, the famed abc anchor. at the time he was a localanchor in washington,
d.c. and shot to prominence. and it wasn't becausehe was black. it wasn't because he hada perfectly coifed afro, it was because he wasan amazing journalist who when an amazingtime was happening, he stepped up to theplate and had the goods. and that's what, when i speakto students, i always say, and it's still true today, thatif you're a woman or a person of color, you have to be,at least strive to be,
twice as good toget half as far. it may not seem fairbut that's what it is. and the idea that, and i remember a certain supremecourt justice who didn't believe in affirmative action-- ofcourse he got into law school on affirmative action--but that's another story. it's not about getting the job,it's about keeping the job. getting the chance for the job. i have been very fortunatein my career because--
look, the fact of the matteris, yes i have lost some weight, but at the time iwas bald, i'm black, and was vastly over weight. most people aren't thinking wow,that's one good looking guy. [laughter] we havegot to put him on tv. so that you know i figured imust be doing something right because i don't knowif i would watch me. in fact i realized the secret to my success is mostpeople sitting at home go,
i look better than that. [laughter] i could do this clown's job. and i firmly believethat what we do matters. you know no matter who you areor what you do, it matters. it's something that i,i have three children. my oldest girl is 26. she's a chef at a localrestaurant in manhattan and still comes home and istill have to cook for her
which [laughter] i put youthrough four years of college, you could at leastchop something for me. [laughter] i have a 14 yearold daughter who, god help me, is just got acceptedas a drama major at the laguardia schoolof performing arts. so i've got a girl, ateenage girl who's going to be studying drama. [ laughter ] isn't that redundant?
thank god for my 10 year old. he's very simple. boys, we're verysimple creatures. we want to play a video game, wewant to know what time to eat, and we want to go to bed. it's very simple. everything else, eh. but you know i, becauseof willard, because of willard scott i'mactually, i can honestly say,
very few people cansay i'm where i am because of a certain person. i'm where i am becauseof willard scott. he went to nbc and said, youknow what, it's time for me to step down andi think you need to give the job tothis young man. and they rarely do thatactually, but he's a loved, a beloved figure at nbc and atthe today show, and he still is. he's still on doing the 100year old birthdays you know
with the smucker'sjar spinning around. [laughter] and now that i'mwatching it i'm thinking, i'm not that far from that jar. [laughter] you know wheneveri make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich now ilook at it a lot differently. but the reality is,we're all very blessed to have these jobsin communications. it is a witness, you getto witness amazing things. i, two of the mostmeaningful moments
in my life were throughwhat i do. i got to meet and sit onthe set with rosa parks. if you can, if there'sone person that you could actuallylook at and point to and say this is somebody whoactually changed the course of a country without pickingup a gun, without being in office, it's rosa parks. and it's somethingthat you never forget. and as i mentioned, i'man amateur cartoonist.
i got to interview charlesshultz, one of my heroes. i got to interview him for the50th anniversary of peanuts, and then sadly six months laterwhen he had been diagnosed with colon cancer he askedfor one more interview and asked if i would do it. and it was again another, something that i would neverhave imagined being able to do. i witnessed, we were on theair the morning of 9/11. it was one of the mostsearing moments of one's life
and for me it was withoutmaking it about oneself, at the, at that same moment, my parentswere in queens getting ready-- my dad had been diagnosedwith lung cancer and was about to come into manhattanfor his first chemo session. and needless to say,they never made it in. and again eerily, just last weekon monday, the boston marathon, we again had a beautiful day,a gorgeous day just like we had on 9/11 and all of thesudden within the blink of an eye our countrychanged again.
so, this job, is in asense, it's an honor. it's a responsibility. it's a trust really to do whatwe get to do because we are in a sense gatekeepersto bring what happens out there into your homes. sometimes we don'twant to do that, but it's our job to do that. and even lately mybailiwick, the weather, has become a major story.
whether you believe in climatechange or not, it is something that has affected thiscountry and in fact the world. we don't even report on a lotof the global climate changes that have happenedand the amazing and unusual weather eventsthat have been occurring. so it now becomes, it doesn'tmatter whether you're black, you're white, you'reasian, you're hispanic, all of this is comingto our doorstep. doesn't matter whether you'reliberal or conservative,
republican, democrat, we areliterally a family of man. and this calling ofjournalism, reporting, is one of those thingsthat brings us together. it can also tearus apart so we have to be very carefulof that trust. i have been fortunate enoughto be on, to have been on the today shownow for since 1996 and i can honestly saythere hasn't been a day where i haven't cherishedthis job.
i grew up in, as i said,brooklyn and queens. my first job in television as isaid was in syracuse, new york, and i called my mother-- becauseof course, here's the thing, the other thing, as a dad,we really get screwed. [laughter] you know when afootball player, you know, scores that touchdown, whatis the first thing he said? hi mom. when the kid gets hurtat school, who do they ask for? mom. you watch tv commercials, you would be better offletting your child be raised
by a wolf [laughter] thanleave the child home with dad. we are imbeciles. well i don't know what todo, where's your mother? anyway, so the first personi called was my mother. [laughter] mom, i just got a job in syracuse doing theweather, doing tv weather. she said oh that's wonderful. that's fantastic. i didn't think youwould be on tv.
i said yeah i know mom, buti'm going to be on the weekend. she goes what channel? i'll turn it on. i go no mom, you can'tsee it because you're in new york city andthis is syracuse. it's you know, over100 miles away. she goes well whatchannel is it? i said it's channel 5. we have channel 5 here!
[laughter] yeah i know mom butit's a different channel 5. this is channel 5in syracuse, when, you have channel 5wnew in new york. but it's channel 5. i said but you, itdoesn't reach down there! [laughter] she said i'm standingin front of the tv right now. here, i'm going to turn it on. no i know mom, there ischannel 5 in new york, but it's not channel5 in syracuse.
that's channel, when, justturn on the tv it'll say wnew. she goes what time are you on? i said i'm going to be onsaturday at 6 o'clock, you know? [laughter] and then of courseat 6:30 my mother called and i watched, you weren't on. [laughter] and then i gota job in new york city and my mother was able to watchand my father was able to watch. and you know it's, thismedium is still something that brings people together.
you know? nobody gathersaround the computer and watches something. we do that individually. but as a collective, you don'tgo to bars to watch a computer or watch your phone,you watch tv. it's something thatbrings us together. it's something thatcan be brought together for good or for bad. but i, you know, i'mone of these people
that i am an optimist. my grandmother, my dad'smother, was to me one of the first optimistsi ever met. every mor- whenever i wouldcall her i'd say grandma, how are you feeling? she goes, got up thismorning, read the paper, wasn't in the obituaries,i made breakfast. [laughter] she was a very,she was a simple woman from the bahamas and to the dayshe passed she, the one thi-,
technology, which we allhave tried to embrace, for older folks whichi'm now become part of, it was always somethingthat stymied her. i remember i was very proud, igave her an answering machine and she never plugged it in, never used it, anddidn't like them. and so every- whenever iwould pick up my phone, this would be the message iwould get from my grandmother. beep. grandma, grandma, grandma!
click. [laughter] higrandma, i got your message. oh you heard that? [laughter] so you know i, i realizeas you're getting older, and the other thing that i'verealized, my dad and my mom, god rest their--they're both gone-- and they were, timesare different now. when my parents wereyoung, my parents had me, they got married, my dadwas 19 and my mom was 17.
they had me when shewas 19 and he was 20. i am an older parent,so i don't know if any of you are a littlemore of advanced age and have younger children, butif i have one more person come up and say your granddaughter is so beautiful [laughter]i'm going to drop them like a bag of dirt, you know? and in fact, literallyyesterday, my daughter leila, the 14 year old,said you know dad,
you're going to be 59 this year. i said yeah. she says, i just never thoughti'd have like a 60 year old dad. [laughter] i i'm not quite surehow i'm supposed to take that. i said eventuallyi would get to 60. i mean if i don't getto 60, that's not good. i know but, you know, allmy friends their dads, you know, are in their 40's. she said well, i thoughti'd have a cool dad.
[laughter] no respect inyour own home, you know? to the point where nowi can't even get dressed because i come out, downstairsand leila said the other day, she said dad you knowi never thought you, but i notice you'rewearing mom jeans. i said these aren't mom jeans. she goes oh that's right,mom's are much better. [laughter] anyway, listen, oneof the things, i kind of talk and i never know whatpeople want to know
about so why don'twe, i'll open this up. if you've got somequestions just raise your hand and i will try toanswer them as best i can because i see people with pens. i also see people leaving,so that's a good sign. [laughter] yes sir? >> what's your perspective, so-called journalism thesedays seems to be influenced by political agenda,by sensationalism?
>> well look, people talk about you know theirdifferent news channels that have a different,if you will, perspective or say they don't but theydo or don't or whatever. i can't speak to those. i, what i, what we do ishere's what's going on and here's what's happening. i, look i think there'sroom for everything. people make a choice,it's a free country.
that's the deal. if that's, if you wantto watch one channel over another, that's the deal. if-- you make your choice. and i don't particularlysubscribe to that, you know? i mean there are people, ourcable channel, msnbc on msnbc, has a more progressive slantduring the evening hours. fox news has, if youwill, people have said, has a more republican slant.
[laughter] i, that's not, idon't work on those channels. i work on the today show fornbc news and that's what i do. and everybody else, god blessthem, they're making a living, they're not hurting me. you know? but ifthey come after me. yes? all the wayin the back sir. >> hi my name's jason moffat[assumed spelling] current third year undergrad student. what has been your mostdefining or memorable moment
that you've had inyour profession? >> well besides the you knowrosa parks and charles schultz and i'd say 9/11 wasthis past winter, or actually fallcovering hurricane sandy, superstorm sandy. i've been doing this for a verylong time and the power of what that storm did was breathtaking. i mean just, obviously therewas human misery and destruction and death and injury, butfrom just a nature standpoint
to watch what thiscould do was really, in a sense, awe inspiring. and, but i've never been partof something, in a sense, i mean hurricane katrinadevastating as well and obviously far more deaths, but to watch how this crippleda region, you know an area that, let's face it, a lot of thepeople in the northeast tend to have an attitude thatyou know look we're, we're in the northeast.
we're got it all going on. we got it covered. and we found out that we don't. and the danger is, the fear is that this is the shapeof things to come. and so that, that's one of thethings that will always stay with me watching-- in factin the middle of the night that monday night we were inpoint pleasant, new jersey right on the beach and i'd beenreporting on these dunes,
and i had done a broadcastat 7 o'clock for msnbc and come off the dunes and my cameraman saidyou'd better come-- i was standing down, he said ithink you need to come up here, up on the second floor. and about 20 minuteslater the dune gave way and we watched theocean rush in. and then we all of the suddenrealized we're trapped here. we've got to get out.
and came down in the middleof the ocean rushing in and i had water up to here. it filled, i was wearing waders. it came in over thewaders to the point where i just let them on-- got out of them and we almostswam across the street. and by the next day therewas sand 6 feet deep where a street had been. so watching this was alife-changing moment,
absolutely. i thought i saw aquestion-- yes ma'am? >> you mentioned that willardscott had quite an influence on your life. do you find yourself ina mentoring positions to, position to youngermeteorologists or? >> you know i have been ableto and one of the things, it's interesting, i've foundthis with, from my dad. my dad was a bus driverwhen i was growing up.
he was actually a very,very talented artist. but at that time, a blackman couldn't get a job in the commercial union. he had a small fa-a young family and so he got a jobas a bus driver. and through the yearshe worked his way up through management and,out of, became a dispatcher, chief dispatcher and thenmoved into management at the transit authority.
by the time he retired he wasthe head of labor relations for the bus system inmanhattan in the bronx. and at his wake, people came upthat i didn't know and a part of my dad's lifethat i didn't know about was how many peoplehe had mentored just by his example, bythings he did. and that, so that's whati strive for and try to do and i could do more of,but i, i'm pleased to say that i've got probably 10 or 12people who are on the air today
that came up and i worked with and fortunately arefar better than me, so. yes ma'am? >> mr. roker, i'mso glad to see you. i saw you on televisionthis morning and worried about how you willget [inaudible]. [laughter] you touched ona little bit about climate, can you expand onthat a little bit? and do you worried though howmuch our climate has seemed
to change these last coupleof years or is it just, we're hearing thatit is [inaudible]. >> well i think it's both. i think it's, you know firstof all we live in an age where we're all connectedand so we can find out and see what's happening,you know across the globe in a pretty real-time basis. but whether you feel it'scaused by human activity or it's a natural cycle,something's changing.
we're seeing more violentweather, more violent swings. there are those who scoffand say oh global warming, well why is it so cold? well no it's not globalwarming, it's climate change. and you know we'vejust come out of one of the worst drought's ever. we've had two years in a rowalong the eastern seaboard devastating hurricanes. you know five years--now in the last four
out of five years the red river in the dakotas hashad record flooding. there's just something going on,and we have got to adapt to it because we may be--may be, i don't know-- past the point of no return. and if we are, thenwe're going to have to learn to live with this. the fact is, there's anold saying, you know, man imposes, god disposes.
the fact of the matter is, wecan build up our shorelines, we can do whatever we want,and then we see one storm come and you know the army corps. of engineers spends billionsof dollars replenishing beaches and it's gone in a storm. so we're all going tohave to start to adapt if in fact this is what we are, you know the cyclethat we're in. i guess my time's up.
>> [inaudible] last question. >> you were the last question! so there you go, you don't geta prize but thank you very much! >> thank you mr. roker. when you go back and look atthe dvd that we'll send you, you'll understand exactlywhy we added you to this list and you will fit verynicely on next year's list of distinguished speakersand we're grateful that you could come and join us.
on behalf of the institutioni've got a number of things i'd like to deliver toyou, share with you. one of them is not abook written by al roker, i don't know why that's here. but all of these gifts willhopefully help you sort of rid your closet of all thisyellow jacket stuff you've got hanging around. >> i got one hat, that's it! >> [inaudible]
>> i don't even havethe hat anymore! >> in here but wrappedis a uga clock with your name inscribed on it-- >> oh fantastic. >> as a holmes-hunter lecturer. we thank you for that. >> and let's givehim a [inaudible]. we also have for you somethingthat you can wear and not have to wear that hat, but we wanted
to give you a niceuga sweatshirt-- >> ooh. >> with a hood to cover the hat. our expectation becausewe will all vow to watch nbc's todayshow tomorrow at 7 is to see you wearing this. >> it might be alittle warm [inaudible]. and it's in the fashionablenew york black. >> that's right.
so we've got this for you. >> that's fantastic. >> we would love foryou to have that and-- >> we also have, and i willlift up the bag, the same gift for each of your childrenand one for your wife. >> oh that's awfully nice. who by the way sendsher regards. she wanted to be here, but sheis covering, unfortunately, the aftermath of theboston marathon attacks.
she's in boston right now fora report on 20/20 tomorrow, but otherwise she wasgoing to come down. >> well let her know we havegifts and that she, as you are, now a member of thebulldog nation, and we are certainly gladthat you could come and visit with us this dayand thank you again. and please join me inthanking [inaudible].
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